Preet Bharara — a holdover Obama appointee — at first didn’t believe President Trump meant to include him among the ousted, he said.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara described the “helter-skelter incompetence” of the Trump administration in an interview published Thursday — his first since he was fired.

Bharara, now teaching at New York University School of Law, said his abrupt dismissal March 10 — along with 46 other U.S. attorneys — came out of nowhere.

“(It was) a direct example of the kind of uncertain helter-skelter incompetence, when it comes to personnel decisions and executive actions, that was in people’s minds when this out-of-the-blue call for everyone’s resignation letter came,” Bharara told The New York Times.

But Bharara — a holdover Obama appointee — at first didn’t believe President Trump meant to include him among the ousted, he said. The two had met in New York on Nov. 30, when Trump was still the President-elect.

Bharara told The Times that Trump asked for his cellphone number at their Nov. 30 meeting — which he gave. Trump used it twice to check in, Bharara said.

He returned the calls only after consulting with other Department of Justice lawyers on the legality of a direct talk with the White House. The third call came March 9 and Bharara did not return it, he said.

When the White House called the following day to request all U.S. Attorney resignations, Bharara said he spent 24 hours trying to find out if it applied to him.

“Literally, no one was giving us an answer to that question,” Bharara told The Times.